PCN Clinical Pharmacist

We are seeking a dedicated and professional Pharmacist to join our multidisciplinary team.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking organisation within the Primary Care Network (PCN) framework. The PCN has already established excellent collaboration in delivering pharmacy provision to the many aspects of the DES within its locality. The post holder will help underpin and grow the team to move to working in line with the ever-evolving requirements of PCNs.

Clinical Medicines Management

• Provide expertise in clinical medicines management, including medication reviews and ensuring safe prescribing practices, especially during care transitions.

Medication Reviews

• Conduct remote or face-to-face structured medication reviews for patients, particularly those with polypharmacy, long-term conditions, or in care homes.

Support for Patients

• Offer patient-facing support, addressing medication queries and optimizing medication use to improve adherence and outcomes.
• Reconcile and manage medicines post-hospital discharge, ensuring continuity of care and addressing unexplained changes.

Quality Improvement

• Lead clinical audits and contribute to quality improvement initiatives, including adherence to local and national prescribing guidelines.

Service Development

• Provide pharmaceutical advice for creating and implementing new services with medicinal components.
• Review and improve the safety of medicines associated with unplanned hospital admissions and high-risk groups.

Education and Guidance

• Provide medication-related information to practice staff, healthcare teams, and patients, suggesting solutions and monitoring outcomes.

Policy Implementation

• Monitor compliance with local and national guidelines, assisting with practice formulary updates and adherence to NICE guidance.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, attending case conferences and contributing to the delivery of high-quality care.

We are a group of six GP practices covering Danes Camp, Rillwood, and The Parks Medical Centre. As an accredited training and research hub, we are committed to developing the next generation of healthcare professionals. Our clinical teams across all sites play an active role in supporting GP registrars, medical and nursing students, and contributing to both ongoing and newly emerging research programmes.

Together, we strive to deliver high quality, forward thinking, and patient centred care.

Place of work

Asthis is a PCN role, you will be required to work at any of our 6 practices.

You will not be required to work outside the United Kingdom.

The member practices are The Parks Medical Practice;
Grange Park, Roade, Hanslope and Blisworth branches, Rillwood Medical Centre and Danes Camp Medical Centre.

Please note this is an on-site position and you will not be able to work from home.

Hours of work

Your normal hours of work are not variable. Your normal hours of work per week are 37.5 hours to be worked Monday to Friday normally between 08:00am. 18:30pm.

Also inclusive of Enhanced Access.

Actual days, start/finish times will be variable, the exact days / times will be agreed and may be subject to change in line with the needs of the Practice.

Breaks are unpaid and inline with the Working Time Regulations.

You may be required to work additional hours when authorized and as necessitated by the needs of the practice.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work within their clinical competence as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management. This involves providing face to face structured medication reviews, managing long term conditions, ensuring safe prescribing at the transfer of care, implementing systems for safer prescribing, repeat prescription reauthorisation and dealing with acute prescription requests.

The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy, especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple comorbidities.

The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, and manage some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held.

Patient Facing Long-Term Conditions Clinics

• See where appropriate patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required e.g. COPD, asthma).
• Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines i.e. medicines optimisation. Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

• Undertake clinical…